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Benjamin LevyArea: MusicCategory: Faculty Title: Assistant Professor Office: E 512 Phone: 480-965-7270 Fax: 480-965-2659 Specialty: Music Theory Email: Ben.Levy@asu.edu WebPage: http://music.asu.edu |
| Bio: Ben Levy is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Arizona State University, specializing in contemporary music. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland where he received the Davis Award for Outstanding Graduate Research and a Dean's Dissertation Fellowship. He holds a bachelor's degree in Music and Classics from Washington University in St. Louis, where he received the Antoinette Frances Dames Award in Music and the Eugene Tavenner Award for Excellence in the Study of Classics.
Dr. Levy has presented his research on György Ligeti at conferences in the United States and Canada, and his dissertation, "The Electronic Works of György Ligeti and their Influence on his Later Style" was supported with the help of a grant from the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, Switzerland. He is currently continuing his research on Ligeti, working towards a book on the composer's radical change in style during the 1950's and 60's. This Fall he will present part of his research at the joint conference of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory in Nashville and also at the 8th Congress of the Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, in Graz, Austria. His other interests include strategies for the analysis of timbre, the influence of non-Western music on contemporary composers (especially Balinese gamelan and gender wayang, which he has played for a number of years), and the relationships between music and text. Before arriving at ASU he served on the faculties of Towson University, the University of Maryland, and the Peabody Conservatory of Music. |
